A husband and wife team from Tamworth masterminded an illegal immigrant plot to bring Indians posing as dancers and musicians into the United Kingdom, a court heard.

The couple used as a front two entertainment companies they ran from Birmingham and a Punjab radio station in the South-east of England, a jury was told on Monday.

Mr Mark Wall QC, prosecuting at Stafford Crown Court said Rani Paul Kashyap, aged 48 and her husband Joginder Paul Kashyap, aged 51, ran two entertainment agencies in Birmingham, "legitimately set up to supply entertainers from India to people who wanted them in this country.

A BRIGHOUSE dentist has apologised to a patient after being allowed to return to work.
Dr Muzzafar Zaman, 41, of Brighouse Dental Practice, said sorry for any distress he had caused after treating a teenage patient without a chaperone present.

Dr Zaman who made a “grave error” in sedating a 16-year-old girl alone and after-hours at his surgery, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Dental Council in London last Friday. But the panel found it sufficient to give him an “expression of disapproval” only.

THE mansion in a millionaires belt of Cheshire went with flash cars and an all round lavish lifestyle.

But Amer Munir's fortune was based on a simple fraud.

By buying £40 million pounds worth of mobile phones from companies in the European Union then conducting a VAT fiddle in the UK the 32-year-old family man became a multi-millionaire literally overnight.